Natural Images in Economic Thought - Markets Read in Tooth and Claw (Paperback, New)

This collection of interdisciplinary essays is the first to investigate how images in the history of the natural and physical sciences have been used to shape the history of economic thought. It documents the extent to which scholars have drawn on physical and natural science to ground economic ideas and evaluate the role and importance of metaphors in the structure and content of economic thought. These range from Aristotle's discussion of the division of labor, to Marshall's evocation of population biology, to Hayek's dependence upon evolutionary concepts, and more recently to neoclassical economists' invocation of chaos theory.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
Release date:	July 1994
First published:	1994
Editors:	Philip Mirowski
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	636
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-47884-7
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy
LSN:	0-521-47884-7
Barcode:	9780521478847

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